{"id":3057,"date":"2022-03-02T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2022-05-06T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:50:43","slug":"sonja-merljak-zdovc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/sonja-merljak-zdovc\/","title":{"rendered":"SONJA MERLJAK ZDOVC"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In 2021, she was included among #WomenInTheSpotlight by Creative EU, official European Commission account focusing on the creative & cultural sectors in Europe.<\/span><\/p>

Experience<\/span><\/i><\/p>

  • April 2015 \u2013: founder, journalist and editor-in-chief of Slovenia’s first online newspaper for children \u010casoris (casoris.si).<\/span><\/li>
  • Februar 2017 \u2013: media literacy workshops and tools for children and adults.<\/span><\/li>
  • 2009 \u2013 2017: adjunct professor of journalism courses at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska.<\/span><\/li>
  • 2005 \u2013 2008: adjunct professor of journalism courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.<\/span><\/li>
  • 1998 \u2013 2017: Journalist, editor, columnist at national daily newspaper Delo.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>

    Education<\/span><\/i><\/p>

    Doctor of Literature (Tom Wolfe’s New Journalism in USA and Slovenia), 2004, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

    Selected Bibliography<\/span><\/i><\/p>

    MERLJAK ZDOVC, Sonja. 2011. The Subversive Reporter: Literary Journalism in Slovenia. In: BAK, John (ed.). Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 238-259.<\/span><\/p>

    MERLJAK ZDOVC, Sonja. 2008. Literary Journalism in the United States of America and Slovenia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.<\/span><\/p>

    Awards & Grants<\/span><\/i><\/p>

    • 2020: grant from the European Journalism COVID-19 Support Fund<\/span><\/li>
    • 2020: grant from Internews\u2019s Information Saves Lives: Rapid Response Fund<\/span><\/li>
    • 2019: Intercultural Achievement Award (media)<\/span><\/li>
    • 2019: Clarinet Project Award (Web and Social Media)<\/span><\/li>
    • 2019: shortlisted for the European Media Literacy Award<\/span><\/li>
    • 2001\/2002: a Fulbright Fellow at the University Missouri \u2013 Columbia, Graduate School of Journalism, attending journalism classes with the Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>

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      SONJA MERLJAK ZDOVC Back to instructors In 2021, she was included among #WomenInTheSpotlight by Creative EU, official European Commission account focusing on the creative & cultural sectors in Europe. Experience April 2015 \u2013: founder, journalist and editor-in-chief of Slovenia’s first online newspaper for children \u010casoris (casoris.si). Februar 2017 \u2013: media literacy workshops and tools for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversitylearning.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}